In Berlin
In Berlin
Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 1994, 170 pages
In Berlin is a book of transition and a thoroughly successful attempt to combine the two sides of the city in literature. Successful not only because the atmosphere of both Berlins wafts out of this book, but also because of its immediacy, its sensuous aura and the absoluteness with which the author introduces herself into the story. It is a book not only about Berlin, but also a sensitive study of affection and coldness, of the love and vulnerability of human beings. [...] In Berlin is neither a novel, reportage nor autobiography, and yet has something of all three. It consists in notes that are largely autobiographical. Irina Liebmann, who lived in East Berlin until 1988, writes in this book of her own confusions and disappointments that the change from one side of the city to the other, and from one system to the other, brought with it.
Irina Liebmann – Biography
Cornelia Staudacher: „Alles aufschreiben, keine Bewegung"
© Der Tagesspiegel, 17.04.1994
